State v. Hilton’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
3
states following
January 2006
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Stone v. Powell · Colten v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Chaffin v. Stynchcombe · Wasman v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“vindictiveness against a defendant for seeking appellate review and obtaining a new trial must not be a factor in the sentence the defendant receives after retrial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Pearce presumption is inapplicable when the second sentencing judge is someone other than the original judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.